Monthly Archives: November 2021

Wednesday November 10th, 2021

Hello!

*Reminder:  each class is shorter today due to our Remembrance Day Ceremony.

*Reminder:  No school tomorrow for Remembrance Day.

*No Red Ink:  Counter Arguments, Conclusions and Formal/Informal Language

*Writing Poetry Assignment:  Self Assessment (for those who have uploaded their assignment.)

*Spoken Word:  Brainstorm a topic you may write on….

Tuesday November 8th, 2021

Hello!

-We will be working on Spoken word:  we will look at a few samples of Rants and Spoken words

 

 

 

*Spoken Word:  Brainstorming activitiy

Warm up spoken word free write activity:  Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses.  Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses:  what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?

Examples:  Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.

a. homesickness

b. grief

c. love

d. joy

e. emptiness

f.  time

g. envy

Spoken Word Activities:

*Techniques for Creating Word Play

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Monday November 8th, 2021

Hello!

-spoken word criteria

secondary-public-speaking

poetry-slam-and-performing-poetry

spoken-word-rant-or-this-i-believe-worksheet

Sarah Key

“Jellyfish”

“Hands”

“When Love Arrives”

“Somewhere in America”

Taylor Mali “What do teachers make?”

Martin Luther King

-We will be working on Spoken word:  we will look at a few samples of Rants…

 

 

 

 

*Spoken Word:  Brainstorming activity

Warm up spoken word free write activity:  Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses.  Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses:  what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?

Examples:  Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.

a. homesickness

b. grief

c. love

d. joy

e. emptiness

f.  time

g. envy

Spoken Word Activities:

*Techniques for Creating Word Play

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Thursday November 4th, 2021

Good Afternoon,

*Reminder:  You have a Poetry Test tomorrow.  The outline of the test is on Teams.

*Reminder:  Scary stories drafts to be uploaded to Teams tonight.

*Yesterday, we narrowed our topics on what bothers us (rant) and what inspires us (I Believe).

spoken-word-rant-or-this-i-believe-worksheet

*Narrow down your topic for what you will write about…

If you go to the last page of the document, you can start to write your spoken word…in sentences…Remember…you can also do it with a partner, trio….